CVE-2024-4232 Password Storage in Plaintext Vulnerability in Digisol Router
An attacker with physical access can extract firmware to retrieve plaintext passwords, enabling unauthorized system access.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-4232?
CVE-2024-4232 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Digisol Router DG-GR1321, published on 10 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
This vulnerability exists in Digisol Router (DG-GR1321: Hardware version 3.7L; Firmware version : v3.2.02) due to lack of encryption or hashing in storing of passwords within the router's firmware/ database. An attacker with physical access could exploit this by extracting the firmware and reverse engineer the binary data to access the plaintext passwords on the vulnerable system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow the attacker to gain unauthorized access to the targeted system.
Weakness: CWE-256
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-4232?
How do I fix CVE-2024-4232?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-4232 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-4232 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4232 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Public exploit code: 2 proofs of concept on GitHub.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-p55r-fqh8-ccwq.